Royal Weddings: Wedding of Zara Phillips to Mike Tindall
22nd March 2018
Just months after the high profile
wedding of Prince William to Catherine Middleton, Zara Phillips
married her longtime boyfriend, Mike Tindall. It wasn’t a wedding
full of cameras and politicians but an event with a down to earth
feeling. Zara Phillips is the granddaughter of The Queen and
daughter of Anne, Princess Royal. Her father, Captain Mark
Phillips, an English Olympic gold medal-winning…
The Wedding Cake of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip
19th March 2018
At the Wedding Breakfast of Princess
Elizabeth and Prince Philip on 20 November 1947 which took place in
the afternoon after the wedding ceremony at Westminster Abbey,
there was a quite extraordinary cake. Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten
had been newly granted the title, style…
Monarchy Rules: King Edward III
19th March 2018
Edward was born on 13th November 1312 at
Windsor Castle, the son of King Edward II and Isabella of France.
The thirteenth century had not been the most successful for the
English monarchy; it had begun with King John and difficulties with
the Barons, and King Edward II still…
The Duke of Kent: Queen Victoria's missing father
18th March 2018
We know of course, that Queen Victoria’s
relationship with her mother, the Duchess of Kent, whilst difficult
in the early years of her childhood and adolescence, gradually
improved with her marriage to Prince Albert, becoming one of
genuine closeness and affection. The death of the Duchess of Kent
in 1861 – nine months as history would show, prior to the death of
Prince Albert – provoked an…
Royal Wedding Flowers: Autumn Phillips
18th March 2018
It was a royal wedding that mixed
traditional and modern and the bride’s bouquet fitted right in.
Autumn Patricia Kelly was the debut bride of a new generation when
she married the Queen’s eldest grandson, Peter Phillips, at St.
George’s Chapel, Windsor on May 17th…
The second big royal wedding of the 1980s
was, at the time, seen as a something of a turning point for the
Windsors. When Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson in the summer
of 1986, the bride was billed as a more relaxed royal who would
bring a new outlook to the dynasty…
Royal titles in the Scandinavian monarchies
18th March 2018
Following the birth of Princess
Madeleine’s third child, Princess Adrienne, we take a look at how
royal titles are used in the Scandinavian monarchies. Sweden The
members of the Swedish Royal Family carry the style of Royal
Highness with the title of Prince/Princess of Sweden. At birth,
they are also assigned as Duke or Duchess of some Swedish region
that they will support and visit in their…

